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Chart of manufacturing output by country for the top 14 producers over the last 12 years.
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There is overwhelming evidence that existing Treasury yields fail to adequately compensate investors for the risk of holding them when measured on an historical basis.
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"I’m getting tired of the pervasive media articles that detail how people are 'surviving' or 'barely managing' on what qualifies as average or definitely median household incomes. This is like writing a articles about 510" guys who are 'struggling' with their height issues complete with tips and tricks on how to cope with their shortage."
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"For the American economy – and for many other developed economies – the elephant in the room is the amount of money paid to bankers over the last five years. In the United States, the sum stands at an astounding $2.2 trillion. Extrapolating over the coming decade, the numbers would approach $5 trillion, an amount vastly larger than what both President Barack Obama’s administration and his Republ
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Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sued more than a dozen major banks Friday for billions of dollars in losses on over $200 billion in mortgage securities bought by government controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the housing bubble.

The mess has not been dealt with so far. Hopefully this is a small step in having those institution that created so
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"In a previous study, we showed that the average return of high dividend yielding stocks was 13.% between 1927 and 2009. Dividend stocks beat the overall market by an average of 1.36% per year in that period. In another article, we provided a list of S&P500 stocks with market cap over $60 billion, and showed that high dividend mega-cap S&P500 stocks have performed better than low dividend S&P500
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A long spell of low interest rates has created a windfall worth billions to banks, mortgage borrowers and others it was designed to benefit. But for people trying to save money, or live off existing nest eggs, those same low rates—held down by the U.S. Federal Reserve—can spell disaster.
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The chart show 3 clear leaders in production Russia, Saudi Arabia and the USA (with the USA firmly in 3rd place). Those 3 were responsible for approximately a third of the total oil production in 2009.
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he incredible volatility of stock prices is ultimately an expression of the volatile emotions and logic of hundreds of millions of investors. Thinking of that makes the project of finding some order in the stock market seem laughably naïve.